BURNING MAN FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES 2014 MUSIC LINEUP

San Francisco, California – April 1, 2014 (Burning Man) – The Burning Man Project today announced the music lineup for the 2014 Burning Man festival.

“We’re very excited about this year’s music lineup.” said Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Burning Man’s musical talent coordinator. “2014 is one of the most ambitious lineups in our history, and puts Burning Man squarely in the ranks of other popular Summer music festivals such as Coachella, Bonaroo, Glastonbury and the US Festival.”

The Burning Man festival will showcase five concert venues of varying sizes spread throughout the event. Two venues will be reserved for smaller performances, two for medium sized performances, and one main venue will be placed just outside the man at the six o’clock road. “We expect the Denial and Anger stages to be more intimate, and have located those within the city close to the three o’clock and nine o’clock plazas. The Bargaining and Depression stages will be located on the open playa near the two o’clock road and the ten o’clock road.”

Kübler-Ross notes that the main venue, the Acceptance stage, is large enough to support a full production truss, with professional lighting and sound. “The audience grandstands will face the Man,” said Kübler-Ross. “We plan to disassemble the Acceptance stage itself after the Friday night performance to make room for the crowds to gather for the main burn.” Kübler-Ross also noted that the grandstands themselves would stay in place and serve as VIP seating for the burning of the man.

“Our five stages have something for everyone,” said Kübler-Ross. “We expect that, as people attend the festival for the week they’ll gradually move through all the stages before finally attending the last performance on the Acceptance stage Friday night. It is a very natural progression. We understand that some people may prefer to stay at a particular stage longer, but expect everyone to experience all five stages before the end.”

“Some of our performers were very difficult to get,” added Kübler-Ross, “This year’s Burning Man event marks Keith Moon’s first public performance since he was invited to perform at the 2012 Olympic closing ceremonies in London, England.” Keith Moon, the former drummer for The Who, was unable to appear at the 2012 Olympic closing ceremony due to issues with his availability. Other artists on Burning Man’s 2014 roster are Jam Master Jay, Warren Zevon and Dave Brockie of GWAR. “Dave Brockie only recently became available,” added Kübler-Ross.

The Burning Man event takes place on a dry lakebed in the Black Rock Desert north of Reno, Nevada between August 25th and Monday, September 1st, 2014. For ticket or other scheduling information, visit the Burning Man website at http://www.burningman.com.

A member of the Burning Man Project's Philosophical Center, Caveat served as the Volunteer Coordinator for Media Mecca from 2008 - 2013. He is presently working with Burning Man's education department on a cultural studies curriculum for Burning Man culture. Caveat is the author of the short story collection A Guide to Bars and Nightlife in the Sacred City, which has nothing to do with Burning Man. He has finally got his email address caveat (at) burningman (dot) org working again. He tweets, occasionally, as @BenjaminWachs

Here goes another reason how BMOrg is ruining our festival!!! Who do you have booking these acts? Really you could have easily have gotten warmer acts. Keith Moon?!?! Come on! Should have been John Entwistle. Jam Master Jay? MCA is much hotter and certainly not as stiff on stage. And you really dropped the boat by having Maurice Gibb, but not inviting Robin??? That would have been epic. Shit I think I am gonna go to the Winnemucca Folk and Fork festival instead.

Anyone wants two VIP passes, they are getting listed on Scrub Chub today!!!

that list just can’t be true
I’m really pissed off you posted that
if it’s true I’ll do anything to last until August
I’m so bummed that those artists may not show
what a wonderful list, thank you so much for posting it, I’m getting in line at Gate on August 1st to be sure to get front row seats

Ya’ll need to RE.lax – Remember to have fun and smile, stop taking life so seriously. I don’t care that some part of my ticket money goes into the BM staff making me laugh, making fun of a dead artist…. *remove wedgie*

I would be will to make a bet right now that to calm all of you down, Caveat Magister is willing to donate all the staff money he made while composing this post (composting?) to the charitable non-profit!

in honor of their past efforts Krug will be sponsoring this years temple now known as ‘The Temple of Krug’ and ‘The PBR Man’ is renamed this year to reflect how the ‘Man’ could never be built without hugs quantities of their product

Then there is not more better fitting Band to add to the lineup than :

The New Orleans Traditional Jazz Funeral /Mardi Gras Band

Saint Gabriel’s Celestial Brass Band

Fast becoming known as “The Grateful To The Dead Band” because of all the Funerals they play every year. We will have to pass on Ike Turner’s however since we already Played for his Funeral in Los Angeles.

T shirts will sold at the k-osks on the esplanade at the 430 and 730 gateways and at the will call pre event.
ATMS will be located at the plazas by the Emergency Services placements- and at every portapotty banks located at the odd numbered blocks.
This year we will NOT be excepting DISCOVER cards as we are NOT a SPECTATOR event…
REMINDER… UNFORTUNATLY bic lighters .. a familiar historic totem of the music Festival tradition will not be sold or permitted on the playa as per our contract with the BLM . we are suggesting the switch to air horns and light sticks will be sold at the consessions stand for the encore calls for this venue.
Commemorative swag will be available on BURN NIGHT ONLY.
RESERVE YOURS NOW FOR AN ADDITIONAL service fee to insure your chance to remember this years show and be the envy of all your friends..
go to the REGESTRATION page and click – I WANT TO BUY SOME SWAG in the highlighted box- and select your choise for the posters,necklaces-or cool BAND mirrored wall hangings . theses jewelry items are available in precious and semiprecious stone settings – the Coke mirrors will be autograph signatures authenticated by the Franklin Harvey mint comes complete with certificate and sure to be an heirloom worth 10 times your intial purchase price . These finely crafted items are from a limited addition and are exact replicas of the crew and artists who actually worked the production or participated IN THE ACTUAL CAMPS!!! THESE will not be rereleased in future events. RESERVE YOURS NOW!! remember…nothing sez ” I went to BURNINGMAN MUSIC FESTIVAL 2014 ” like this .

Cant we regulate the bullshit to the rear of the city say in open walk in camping?
Its gonna muck up the view of the man and dumb down the landscape…Will SAMMY HAGAR BE THERE? I am pro music- I am for not setting a different vibe on the open playa but for creating more attention to alternative art forms all ready supported by other venues to the rear areas of the city scape so as to keep the avante guard and open playa…open. … o…and fuck Woodstock hippys! get off my god damn lawn.

Note the black men on the Denial Stage, Anger Stage. Really, Jam Master Jay angry? Very disappointed in the committee for approving this to go out. Not to race-bait but you guys can do better than that.

Coachella did the hologram of tupac in 2012!! why not do it all the way through?!
That was a really sad and messed up April fools prank. I would have gone STUPID DUMB for a hologram of Mac dre!! :D
And I must say it all was Freakin Hilarious! But DAVE BROCKIE of Gwar!!!! THATS FUCKED UP. Dude JUST died not a month ago

“Dulani Wallace Says:
April 2nd, 2014 at 8:41 am
Note the black men on the Denial Stage, Anger Stage. Really, Jam Master Jay angry? Very disappointed in the committee for approving this to go out. Not to race-bait but you guys can do better than that.”

Thank You BurningMan Staffers fro being fist class assholes….I have been out to the playa three times driving folks out there it is my job…. every time the staff has addressed me and my clients with less respect the the playa they walk on WTF do you own the dessert? and dude with the bullhorn I hope someone shoves it up you ass where it belongs. FU bunch of pricks I would not pay one red cent to join assholes like you….And you even treated the performers I picked up like shit too they could not stop commenting on what a bunch of pricks you all are. I hope your man burns in hell!!!!!